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SHRED

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9. Here's another way it "works" on the local level

Reply to Scuba (Original post)

Sat Sep 6, 2014, 12:27 PM

Sep 2014

They'll run a story for a week or so and then hit the streets for the public's reaction. Surprise!! Most opinions mirror what they heard on the news. And the citizens talk as if they came up with their own view... lol.

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Tom Tomorrow: How the "news" works. [View all] Scuba Sep 2014 OP

Government propaganda on behalf of those who will profit underpants Sep 2014 #1

Am-news-ia KurtNYC Sep 2014 #2

And we still keep buying it each time it happens. Question every war narrative newthinking Sep 2014 #3

Folks are too busy being frightened by the headlines and too entertained by "cloud" bursts to spare Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #5

And yet the official Obama Administration narrative of what's happening truth2power Sep 2014 #28

I think it is a very vocal but small contingent here. newthinking Sep 2014 #32

Kicked x1000, and recommended for all unlikely voters x30 million more or less. Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #4

k&r for the truth, however depressing it may be. n/t Laelth Sep 2014 #6

This will Probobly get me Banned imthevicar Sep 2014 #7

That will SO not get you banned tkmorris Sep 2014 #10

This 'toon is from 2007, yet some people act as if it was from yesterday. baldguy Sep 2014 #18

Change some country's names around, it could be 1898. Ikonoklast Sep 2014 #19

Umm...that's exactly the point.. truth2power Sep 2014 #29

Nailed it. ctsnowman Sep 2014 #8

Here's another way it "works" on the local level SHRED Sep 2014 #9

Great cartoon Gothmog Sep 2014 #11

The Cycle of Life for controlling the masses. nt valerief Sep 2014 #12

Tom Tomorrow Iwillnevergiveup Sep 2014 #13

It's absolutely tragic, how accurate this editorial cartoon is. Paladin Sep 2014 #14

The one lesson history teaches is hifiguy Sep 2014 #16

By God, if the U.S. stands for nothing else, it stands for that. (nt) Paladin Sep 2014 #17

'twas ever thus. hifiguy Sep 2014 #15

This cartoon conforms to by biases, ZombieHorde Sep 2014 #20

I see your recommendation and raise you by saving it to my hard drive. Major Hogwash Sep 2014 #21

Rinse/Repeat Hissyspit Sep 2014 #22

Well he's right, except MaggieD Sep 2014 #23

This is the expected result of the Republicans taking over the media after Vietnam and Watergate. Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2014 #24

excellent and true heaven05 Sep 2014 #25

watching with a cyncial grin archaic56 Sep 2014 #26

slap!!! heaven05 Sep 2014 #27

Lol! 'We believe them'! And anyone who says it isn't true, are MORONS, they might have been good sabrina 1 Sep 2014 #30

Same game, different worst boogeyman EVER! 99Forever Sep 2014 #31